Thread: Discussion: eBook Publishing Model proposals
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Old 12-24-2007, 04:51 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If you do decide to use Adobe PDF as your ebook format, then you do deserve to get pirated all to heck.
Why thank you. After all, the careful layouting, the mathematical formulas, the illustrations - these are all nonsense, right?

I'd say the only viable format for e-publishing of technical material is PDF.

Of course, I understand your reasoning: if you insist on a tiny ebook reader with 600x800 resolution or even less, you like the "reflow" which is possible with other formats.

It would be entirely possible to have a few "editions" of a technical ebook, each specifically tailored to a particular screen size of an ebook reader. I would go as far as spending time to properly layout a 768x1024 pixel version of my book (for iLiads), leaving away the margins and making sure everything properly fits, that the index and TOC are correct, etc.
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